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...plans being developed in its recently hatched digital division, despite projected outlays this year of $500 million. "We had a big uphill job as a corporation" to catch up with the established Internet players, notes Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner. Levin was even contemplating "an internal takeover" of CNN to make it the company's digital division, separate from the rest of the Turner networks...
...tour of the firm's network operations center. As Case walked Levin through the NORAD-like setup, he couldn't resist a dig. "How many simultaneous users did we have last night?" he shouted to one techie. "One point five million," came the answer. Case: "Hey, that beats CNN." Wink. Case explained to Levin how--and why--AOL's networks are built to be faster than regular Internet service providers. "How do you do that?" Levin asked. "Caching and peering," a techie answered. "What's that?" Levin asked about peering. Case explained how the service has direct ties into...
Readers should also take into consideration that Microsoft is a partner with NBC, which is owned by General Electric, in an all-news cable channel, MSNBC, which competes with CNN, which is owned by AOL Time Warner. What's more, the editor in chief of MSNBC.com the cable channel's affiliated website, is my mother's brother's wife's aunt's husband's nephew, which obviously makes it difficult for me to evaluate objectively the merits of a merger between a company (AOL) that recently bought the company (Netscape) that makes the Internet browser that competes with the browser...
...intriguing one. Her Hollywood roots ran deep; he was an entertainment mogul. Her media domination centered on the world of aerobics, his on politics. She was an outspoken liberal activist; he was merely outspoken. So it may not have shocked many last week when actress JANE FONDA and CNN founder TED TURNER announced their separation after eight years of marriage. Though the two were often seen swooning over each other, there were reports of divergent views on spousehood. In 1998 Turner revealed that the two were seeing a marriage counselor, which perhaps led to his suggestion last year that...
...news. As the process unfolds, the merger of news and entertainment of the past decade will now be extended to Internet and software companies, as Internet real estate is parceled out among infotainment juggernauts. After all, Time-Life wedded with Warner Brothers and Time-Warner consumed CNN while AOL nabbed Netscape. And now they have each other...